San Seb pick up boosts art-house distrib's slate

Pic was sold by Paris-based sales agent Wild Bunch. An ensemble portrait of a post-industrial working class district in a small Czech city, “Something” was helmed and scripted by Czech Bohdan Slama and co-produced by Negativ, Czech TV and Ger-many’s Pallas Film. It is Slama’s third feature film.

The pick-up adds to “Something’s” growing rep. Apart from San Seb’s top Golden Shell kudo and best actress nod for young star Anna Geislerova on Sept. 24, it also won the Golden Athena grand prize at the 11th Athens Intl. Film Fest.

Immediately after San Sebastian, “Something Like Happiness” was chosen by the Czech Film & Television Academy as the Czech Republic’s official submission for the foreign-language Oscar.